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Motivation and Second Foreign Language Proficiency: The Mediating Role of Foreign Language Enjoyment [PDF]

Sustainability, 2020
Inadequate research attention has been paid to the learning of a third language. For this reason, this study explores senior English major students’ learning of additional foreign languages in seven universities in Shaanxi Province, China. The study examines the relationship between the participants’ motivation and language proficiency through a ...
Huiyu Zhang, Ying Dai
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Interactions of trait emotional intelligence, foreign language anxiety, and foreign language enjoyment in the foreign language speaking classroom

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
The present study investigated the interactions of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI), foreign language anxiety (FLA), and foreign language enjoyment (FLE) in the foreign language speaking cla...
Zhuo Chen, Ping Zhang, Yi Lin, Yanxia Li
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A longitudinal study of foreign language anxiety and enjoyment

Language Teaching Research, 2021
The present longitudinal study investigated the changes of FLE (foreign language enjoyment) and FLA (foreign language anxiety) over time in the foreign language classroom and their relationship with foreign language learning motivation and learners’ personality traits.
Chunmei Pan, Xian Zhang
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Dynamics and mechanisms of foreign language enjoyment contagion

Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
With the recent shift from negative psychology to positive psychology in the field of second language acquisition deeper understanding regarding the transfer and construction of positive emotions w...
Nahid Talebzadeh, Majid Elahi Shirvan, Gholam Hassan Khajavy   +2 more
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Understanding, measuring, and differentiating task enjoyment from foreign language enjoyment

Abstract This study aims to conceptualize and measure task-specific enjoyment and examine its links with general foreign language enjoyment. A 23-item Task Enjoyment Scale was developed based on interview data obtained after the completion of an L2 oral task.
Chengchen Li, Jean-Marc Dewaele
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The dimensions of foreign language classroom enjoyment and their effect on foreign language achievement

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This paper reports a study that investigated the dimensions underneath the construct of foreign language classroom enjoyment and explored the pattern in which these enjoyment dimensions affect foreign language achievement. To this end, 320 first language Chinese senior high school students, who were learning English as a foreign language (EFL), were ...
Yinxing Jin, Lawrence Jun Zhang
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The Effect of Foreign Language Enjoyment on Students' Foreign Language Learning

Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media
Abstract: Globalization has prompted educators to focus on enhancing students' foreign language proficiency rather than merely improving language test scores. Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) is widely recognized as a active motivational factor that can significantly enhance language performance.
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L2 or L3? Foreign Language Enjoyment and Proficiency

2017
Enjoyment is among the achievement emotions encountered in school and university settings. While often identified with a sense of belonging not necessarily connected with learning (Lumby, 2011), foreign language enjoyment (FLE) in SLA has been found to correlate with teachers’ professional and affective skills, and the existence of a supportive peer ...
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Preservice Elementary School Teachers’ Foreign Language Enjoyment, Foreign Language Anxiety, and Foreign Language Teaching Anxiety

Studies in English Education, 2022
Jaemyung Goo, Youngjoo Kim
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A longitudinal study of foreign language anxiety and enjoyment

Language Teaching Research, 2023
Chunmei, Xian Zhang
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